[2730] in Release_Engineering
RIOS problems...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Aug 5 12:14:23 1991
From: vanharen@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 91 12:14:26 -0400
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, rel-eng@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Xfd does not seem to be finding its app-defaults file. The labels are
not set correctly, and pushing the quit button does nothing. The
app-defaults file *is* installed. Perhaps it just needs to be
recompiled?
The font "*-times-medium-r-*--18-*" is flawed. The "space" character
(32) is too wide. It is 11 pixels wide, when it should be more like 4.
Since this is a vendor-supplied font, I'm not sure there's anything that
can be done about this problem. This problem is evident in the logout
dialog presented by "xlogout" (aka dash), in that the text of the
buttons is wider than it should be, and the buttons overlap. Check out
the spacing of those buttons on a VAX or RT compared to the RIOS, and
you'll see what I mean. Or load the font up into xfd...
To work around the problem, please change the Dash app-defaults file,
line 106, from:
*logoutDialog*window.geometry: 400x150+318+326
to:
*logoutDialog*window.geometry: 415x150+318+326
Or, if you prefer, just pick up /mit/dash/src/Dash again.
Also, please pick up the app-defaults file for Xcluster. I have had to
change it to make it deal with the difference in dpi for the rios, by
changing the size of the window and changing the font specs.
Fonts missing from the RIOS --
the b&h-lucida, misc-fixed, schumacher-clean, sony-fixed, and the
sun-open_look series
also, 6x13bold, 6x9, 7x13, 7x13bold, 7x14, 8x16, 9x15bold, as well as
some more obscure things, like: 8x16kana, 8x16romankana, a14, k14,
kana14, etc...
-C.
